UPDATE: Auburn, NY -- A Cayuga County Court judge this morning refused to reduce bail for the man suspected of murder and robbery in a 14-year-old murder case, and set a trial date of July 6.

Sammy Swift, the suspect in the 1994 Auburn murder and robbery, was in court asking to have his bail reduced, but County Judge Thomas G. Leone refused.

Swift, 55, is accused of killing Auburn resident Stephen DeLuca, and is being held at the county jail on $200,000 cash bail or $400,000 bond.

Swift is accused of robbing and assaulting DeLuca, 68, in the victim's 24 Underwood Ave. home in April 1994. DeLuca died later from injuries attributed to the robbery. Swift was convicted in a 1995 jury trial and sentenced to life in prison.

Last year, Leone ordered a new trial for Swift after DNA testing revealed that none of Swift's blood was found at the scene.